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Re: [milter-greylist] Possible feature request?

2005-02-01 by Thomas Cameron

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <manu@...>
To: <milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 1:12 PM
Subject: Re: [milter-greylist] Possible feature request?


>
> Jack L. Stone <jacks@...> wrote:
>
>> I'm no code man either, but I would think that is a good idea if the IP 
>> was
>> somehow matched to the domain. Otherwise, we would be exposed to forgery
>> again.... I would think.
>
> Yes, this is the problem:
>
> When I see an outgoing e-mail, I could decide to whitelist (recipient's
> MX IP, recipient e-mail, sender e-mail), so that the reply doesn't have
> to suffer greylisting.
>
> But the recipient's MX IP does not have to be the sender IP for the
> reply. I many situations, it's not the same IP.

So would it be too dangerous to allow the e-mail address through without the 
MX ip address?  Kind of like a temporary "from user@..." entry in 
greylist.conf?

Thomas

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